Jan and Dean
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Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby Torrence. In the early 1960s, they were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles later popula
Jan and Dean in 1964
Jan and Dean on the cover of Cash Box; August 3, 1963
The album cover to Pollution, designed by Torrence, won a Grammy Award for Best Album Cover in 1971.
Torrence and Berry in 1985
Dead Man's Curve (song)
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"Dead Man's Curve" is a song by the American vocal duo Jan and Dean. Released as a single in December 1963, the song details a teen street race gone awry. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot
Jan and Dean
…song to reach the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. Their other charting top 10 singles were "Baby Talk" (1959), "Drag City" (1963), "Dead Man's Curve" (1964; inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008) and "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" (1964). In 1972, Torrence won the Grammy Award for…
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